Family members are asking for help finding a teenager who went missing from a St. George-area treatment center Sunday.

The 16-year-old, who had been living at the Lava Heights Academy treatment center in Toquerville, escaped with another teen sometime late Sunday, Brenda Frace-Folk, the boy's mother, said Wednesday.

He is 6 feet 2 and weighs about 210 or 220 pounds, Frace-Folk said, describing him as having blond hair, blue eyes and noticeably crooked teeth.

The teen takes medication for a number of conditions, Frace-Folk said, including bipolar disorder and autism spectrum disorder. She said he has a history of sexual misconduct, which is part of what led family members to enroll him in a treatment center.

He had been at Lava Heights Academy for 11 months.

Frace-Folk said managers at the treatment center told her Sunday the teen was missing, but did not report him missing to authorities until two days later, after she and two other family members drove out from California.

When called for comment, a representative for the treatment center said she was unauthorized to comment on the situation but was referring the request to a company spokesperson. As of deadline, nobody representing the company had called.

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